NEW YORK — Call it the ho-hum market. Another day, another record high.

News of a handful of corporate deals sent some stocks jumping Monday. And Family Dollar climbed following news that investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in the company.

With no major economic reports to drive the market, U.S. indexes made slight gains in the morning then slouched back toward the break-even mark in the afternoon. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index still managed to close at another all-time high, rising 1.83 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 1,951.27.

The Dow Jones industrial average edged up 18.82 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,943.10, while the Nasdaq composite index gained 14.84 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,336.24.

The S&P 500 has been on a steady climb for three weeks, lifting the benchmark for most investment funds by 4 percent the past month.

Judging by some measures, that sudden success makes it look like the S&P 500 has moved “too far, too fast,” said Joe Bell, senior equity analyst at Schaeffer’s Investment Research.

But there are still plenty of traders making bets against the market. People have also taken billions out of mutual funds that invest in U.S. stocks week after week, according to the Investment Company Institute.

In corporate deal news, Hillshire Brands rose $3.14, or 5 percent, to $62.06 after Tyson Foods emerged as the winner in a bidding war for the meat processor.

Merck announced a deal to buy Idenix Pharmaceuticals for $3.85 billion, an acquisition that would give the pharmaceutical giant Idenix’s array of treatments for hepatitis C. Idenix soared $16.56, or 229 percent, to $23.79.

Apple’s stock rose $1.48 cents, or nearly 2 percent, to $93.77. That’s after closing at $645.57 on Friday. The difference reflects Apple’s 7-for-1 stock split, which gave every Apple stockholder six additional shares for every share they owned.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.

A local union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter stood his ground Thursday, maintaining the president-elect gave false hope to hundreds of workers by inflating the number of jobs being saved at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis.

Fast forward to today, and Larkburger is celebrating its 10th anniversary, having grown from one restaurant in Edwards to 12 locations in the state amid increasingly fierce competition in the “better burger” world.